Jellyfish Craft

Hello, and happy Friday!!

I hope you all enjoyed the work week.  It has been a wonderful week here on the central coast of California!
Yesterday, Kyra and I decided to get a little crafty.  It is easier now with the power of Pinterest to come up with great ideas for kids.
I have an entire board dedicated to projects for Kyra and Cody.  This past week it has been just me and Kyra, so we decided jellyfish would be fun to craft.

Click here for the link to the original tutorial.

We found lots of the goodies for this project at the dollar store, including the two-packs of crate paper and google eyes.

It was a very fun and easy project!

Kyra is ready to begin!

We started by painting the inside of the bowls.

We didn't worry about making it perfect since the crate paper is glued to the inside.

These are the two I painted.

Kyra was in the mood for pink and black.

Kyra had a great time with this project and I did too! 

My sister even hung one of my jellyfish from the light in her kitchen.

 It made me feel like a kid again.

You should craft these cute jellyfish soon.

I think they would be cute for party decorations too!!!

Oh, and of course our supervisor was never far away.

~Best Wishes~

Pretty Bottle Opener

It is Friday....woot!!!

The best thing about this particular Friday, is that my dad is flying in tomorrow and we are driving me and all of my stuff back to California on Monday!  I am almost home!!!
Since I am in the middle of moving, I do not have a lot of stuff out to occupy my time.  I did find Christopher's key ring and stole his bottle opener.  I have been wanting a bottle opener to carry on my key ring and recently bought a sea turtle bottle opener, but it is too heavy to carry around.  It also doesn't work very well.
My dad is actually the one that gave Chris his bottle opener when Chris and I first started dating.  It had a local radio station logo on it, and I wanted a pretty one so it was DIY time!

All you need is a bottle opener and some nail polish in your choice of colors.  I buy all of my nail polish from my sister because she sells Avon, and I love their nail polish!  It goes on so smooth and they often have great deals (I only buy it when it is on sale).

I used six colors to make the stripes.  The color names from left to right: Sunshine, Vintage Blue, Jade, Luxe Lavender, Cotton Candy, and Aqua Fantasy.

This is what the bottle opener looked like before.

Perfectly fine but I wanted a pretty bottle opener!

The first thing I did was a primer coat using the "Sheer French Pink" color, again from Avon.  As you can see it didn't cover it up perfectly, but it did give it a nice base coat.

This shows the progression of adding colors.  Once I used all six colors once, I worked the colors backwards to the other end. I also added a clear top coat for a little protection.

This is the end product!  It is definitely pretty!

It was also nice to be able to work on a project that did not involve packing or cleaning!

Enjoy your weekend everyone!

~Best Wishes~